ENGD07H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: World Development Report, International Standard Classification Of Education, Second International
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The first formal systematic international comparisons of educational systems was undertaken by the international bureau of education (ibe) in the early 1930s beginning in 1933. Unesco"s first questionnaire-based survey of education received responses from 57 member states in 1950. The international standard classification of education (isced) is a statistical framework for organizing information on education maintained statistical framework for organizing information on education maintained by the united. It is a member of the international family of economic and social classifications of the. Isced was developed in the 1970s, and updated in 1997 and again in 2011 to incorporate the whole educational system. Isced has various levels; 0 being for ece and primary education and level 8 being for phd education. Unicef (united nations children"s fund) began publishing an annual report titled the state of the world"s children. The world bank also publishes an annual world development report.
